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National Science and Technology Council (Taiwan)

3 developments involving National Science and Technology Council (Taiwan) in 1 country or body. The most recent is Taiwan’s legislature passes the Artificial Intelligence Basic Act, 23 Dec 2025.

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  1. Rule changeGovernmentTaiwan
    Taiwan’s legislature passes the Artificial Intelligence Basic Act

    Companies in Taiwan face no direct new duties yet, but sector regulators must now write risk-based AI rules.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)

  2. ProgrammeComputeTaiwan
    NVIDIA and Foxconn plan a 10,000-GPU AI supercomputer for Taiwan with NSTC and TSMC

    Taiwanese researchers and startups gained access to a large domestic Blackwell cluster through the NSTC, part of the government’s sovereign AI compute plans.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 18 Oct 2026)

  3. Model releaseGovernmentTaiwan
    Taiwan’s NSTC releases TAIDE-LX-8B, a Traditional Chinese model built on Llama 3

    Taiwanese firms and agencies got a locally tuned open model for Traditional Chinese work, an early step in the island’s sovereign AI effort built on a foreign open-weights base.

    Source, source copy (PDF, saved 21 Oct 2026)